Timothy D. Wilson is a social psychologist whose research includes limits of introspection about the causes of judgment. With Richard E. Nisbett, he examined whether verbal explanations reveal the processes that produced a response or instead draw on plausible causal accounts. The distinction motivates experiments comparing reported reasons with independently manipulated influences. It concerns access to causal processes, rather than implying that every report of a feeling or experience is false. [ref]
Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes by Richard E. Nisbett and Timothy D. Wilson. 1977, review of process reports and causal attribution
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